Kitchen Renovation With Built-in Banquette Seating

Kitchen Renovation 

With Built-in Banquette Seating

contributed by Grey Dog Designs

Let me begin with a brief synopsis about our house...  

What is now "our house" started out as Bryan's house...a single man buying his first home.  The items that a women might have as a requirement while house hunting or put on her "non negotiable" list…well they just never cross a man's mind.  As long as it has 4 walls, a roof and a yard to get dirty in, it's good enough for my man!  Needless to say the house needed a bit of TLC.  Lucky for me, I LOVE home renovations!!  Hubby does NOT love home renovations, but he tolerates it because he knows it makes me happy.  

True love I tell ya!

Here's a brief recap of a few small projects that have been tackled since moving in:

- Every wall in the house has been sanded and painted since they were all covered with high gloss paint...

yes, EVERY - SINGLE - WALL

- The ceilings were all scraped and smoothed to get rid of the popcorn

- Every closet door had a 70's accordion door which has been replaced with a regular door

- The dark wood mouldings throughout the house were all painted a nice clean shade of off-white.  This really helped lighten up the entire house since it's a bit smaller and doesn't get much natural light.

Now we move onto the bigger projects!  I figured I would start with the kitchen.

The kitchen has been a work in progress for a few months and we’re finally nearing the end!  (Or at least as far as we are going to go with the kitchen)  Here are a few pictures of what the kitchen looked like on move in day...

(sorry the quality isn't great...Bryan took most of the before pics)

 

 Kitchen sink area

 

Previous homeowner’s idea of a pantry

More ingenious storage ideas!  That’s a curtain covering the cabinets below, and not too sure about the S hooks above.

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